Chapter 37: Darcy Lewis

Chapter 37: Darcy Lewis

A/N: The moment you've all been waiting for since Chapter 24.

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“Feeling nervous Ms. Lewis?”

Her face is so hot and red that even the tips of her ears are burning. Of COURSE Darcy is feeling nervous. But... she’s in way too deep to back out now, truth be told. So she swallows her nerves and gives Tony Stark a bright sunny smile.

“Why would I be nervous, Mr. Stark? We’re just visiting your sex dungeon, after all.”

Tony snorts, even as he guides her along a hallway in his new tower with a hand on the small of her back. He definitely could have reached lower at this point and Darcy wouldn’t have minded one bit... but he’s a perfect gentleman instead. Darcy can still hardly believe she’s getting to see the inside of the Stark Tower in New York even before it’s officially finished. Nor can she really believe what she’s here for in the first place.

“I figured the NDAs might have turned you off to the idea a little bit. I’m glad to see they didn’t.”

Darcy hums to herself at that. Honestly, the NDAs she’d had to sign to even be here today had been a little startling. But after thinking about it for even half a second, she’d realized they were kind of important. Tony and Pepper Stark were literally celebrities. There were a lot of people who would pay a lot of good money for a peek into their sex lives. Obviously, Darcy didn’t need that sort of temptation in her life.

Luckily, she didn’t have to worry about that at this point. The NDAs were buttoned up tight. It wouldn’t matter how much money she could make off of selling the dirty details about what was going to happen today to anyone. If she spilled the beans, her life would be over, plain and simple.

“By the way, how are Dr. Foster and Dr. Selvig doing? I haven’t gotten a chance to talk to either of them lately.”

Darcy hums, realizing that despite her words, Tony does in fact realize she’s wound tighter than a spring at this point. He’s trying to set her at ease before they get to their ultimate destination. The calm before the storm, so to speak. She feels a little ashamed for grasping at the opportunity like the lifeline it is.

“Well... Jane is pining after Thor still, I’d say. It’s pretty weird, she barely even got to talk to him for the couple of days he was on Earth. Still, he was a total hottie in that blond hunky himbo sort of way, so I guess the impression stuck for her. I think she’s happy with the new lab you got her though. And she’s been gushing over all the new data she collected from New Mexico.”

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“Erik though... haven’t heard from him in a month I think. He’s kind of gone silent, weirdly enough.”

Tony hums and nods in response to that, even as they come to a door where he has to place his hand on a pad and his eye up to a retinal scanner at the same time. As he’s scanned, he speaks rather casually.

“Yes, that’s probably because SHIELD got to him.”

Darcy’s eyes widen at that seemingly ominous statement, but Tony elaborates a moment later and she relaxes as his words are further explained.

“SHIELD wanted both of them to come work for them on a super secret project I’m not supposed to know about, but Dr. Foster’s experience with Agent Coulson before I showed up soured her opinion on their organization. Plus, they can’t really offer Jane what I can offer her.”

Darcy snorts at the double innuendo, even if it might not have been intentional. Still...

“What about Erik?”

“Well, Erik doesn’t really like me. He’s an old fashioned sort of scientist who distrusts me for my cavalier attitude and the way I flaunt my wealth. In the end, it wasn’t the money that enabled SHIELD to tempt Dr. Selvig away, it was the details of the project I’m not supposed to know about.”

Now she’s undeniably curious about what this project is that Tony keeps mentioning. But before Darcy can work up the courage to ask, the door finally dings and slides open and Tony leads her inside. They enter a much shorter hallway, and as they go Tony glances at Darcy with a raised eyebrow.

“Remember your safe word, right Darcy?”

Nodding sharply, Darcy grins.

“Papyrus, yep! Still crazy that they got away with using that for the font of the Avatar Movie. The biggest movie of the century so far and its logo is just... papyrus.”

Tony just raises an eyebrow at her in amusement, causing Darcy to flush. She’s rambling, isn’t she? Yes, yes she is. And honestly, she shouldn’t be talking so much about papyrus when it’s supposed to be the word she only says if things get to be too much for her. Of course, she has no plans of using the word. No, she’s going to enjoy every last second of whatever Tony and Pepper Stark decide to do with her.

Just as that determination is crystallizing in Darcy Lewis’ mind, the final door between them and their ultimate destination opens... and Darcy’s jaw drops open as she finds herself staring at an honest to god sex dungeon. The sex dungeon is REAL.

Equipped with all sorts of equipment, toys, and the like, Darcy finds her eyes darting too and fro for a moment... before landing on the people already occupying the room. Not person, people. She was expecting Pepper Stark. But she wasn’t expecting Lady Sif!

“Mmmph!”

The Asgardian woman is currently in the middle of the room wearing a straitjacket and dangling from the ceiling with what look to be a set of incredibly thick, incredibly strong chains holding her in place. She struggles and squirms right up until she notices Darcy, at which point she freezes up for a second and goes bright red.

Pepper, who had been watching Sif wiggle and writhe while clad in full blown black leather dominatrix gear, turns and gives the most predatory grin of Darcy’s young life.

“Oh! Ms. Lewis, you’ve finally arrived. Don’t mind Sif here... she’s far too competitive for her own good.”

Blinking, Tony looks up as an excited, altogether manic Maya Hansen comes sprinting into the sex dungeon the moment the door opens. Her eyes are wide and her smile is even wider.

“I’ve figured out the Technopathy Upgrade for Extremis!”

Glancing down at the coed trapped beneath him and Pepper, Tony opens his mouth to say something, only for Maya to bulldoze right over him.

“I even managed to upgrade the regeneration aspect too! You could probably regenerate from everything up to straight decapitation now, on top of being able to control and interface with technology with just your mind. And get this, Tony... the technopathy starts with a range of well over five hundred feet and seems to be growing!

That last bit gets Tony’s attention even as his mind is already working on the problem that Maya has just created.

“... You already dosed yourself?”

Maya blinks and then flushes.

“Ah, well... yes? Sorry, I know I’m not supposed to but...”

Tony just shakes his head.

“It’s alright, I’m not upset about that.”

Pepper finally speaks up.

“Maya, who do you think we’re playing with right now, exactly?”

The geneticist finally looks down at the woman they have pinned beneath him. The woman that has gone very, very still. Slowly, a thoughtful frown begins to spread across Maya’s face. She reaches out and pokes Darcy in the boob that Pepper isn’t currently groping and hums.

“... Body’s too soft to be Sif or Natasha. Tits are too big to be Helen...”

Finally, Maya’s eyes widen and she freezes like a deer caught in headlights as it dawns on her that this is someone she doesn’t know and she just spilled huge secrets in front of them.

Sighing, Pepper pulls off of Darcy’s face, climbing down from the table and standing there with her hands on her naked hips. Darcy looks between them all, biting her lower lip as she trembles.

“... I-I don’t suppose I could just sign another NDA?”

That gets a snort from Tony, which makes Darcy squeak in fear.

“P-Papyrus!”

He pulls out of her immediately of course, stepping away altogether. But if she thinks using the safe word will get her out of the secrets she just learned... still, what do with her, exactly? He hadn’t planned for this situation at all.

Fortunately, he married a very intelligent woman, because Pepper suddenly snaps her fingers.

“You’re a political sciences major interning with an astrophysicist, right?”

Blinking at the non-sequitur, Darcy sits up and slowly nods.

“Yeah?”

Stepping up to the young coed, Pepper grins wickedly.

“So you’ve already proven how flexible you consider your future, Ms. Lewis. Come work for me. I’ve been in need of a PA I can mold into my protégé for a while now, ever since my last PA turned out to be an undercover femme fatale out to steal all of Stark Industries’ secrets. The position comes with lots of benefits, including a salary that will make your head spin. It also comes with the understanding that you can be trusted, that your loyalty is... sacrosanct.”

Eyes wide, Darcy looks between the three of them for a moment. Maya doesn’t meet her eyes, Tony just raises a single brow, while Pepper is all smiles... albeit wolfish smiles. In the end though, Darcy makes the right choice.

“O-Okay! I’m in. Um... though, question. Just how much time will I be spending under your desk in this new position, Mrs. Stark?”

Pepper giggles and reaches out, caressing Darcy’s cheek.

“Oh... you and I are going to get along just fine, Ms. Lewis.”

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A/N: Fufufu, an oopsie on Maya's part, or all carefully calculated and planned between her and Pepper? Hmmm, I'll let you all decide.